tuneless

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tuneless
    adj 1: not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn:
           {tuneless}, {untuneful}, {unmelodious}] [ant:
           {melodious}, {tuneful}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tuneless \Tune"less\ (t[=u]n"l[e^]s), a.
   1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless
      serenade." --Cowley.
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            How often have I led thy sportive choir,
            With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire!
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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   2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
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   3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuneless":
      absonant, atonal, cacophonous, cracked, diaphonic, disconsonant,
      discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, flat, grating,
      harsh, immelodious, inharmonic, inharmonious, musicless,
      nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone,
      out of tune, raucous, sharp, shrill, sour, strident, unharmonious,
      unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful

    

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